May thy liquid to solid by heat transmutation work in your favor.

Also make sure you through some veggies in there sautéd with some spices even if its just onion and garlic.

Oh sure! You can totally mess something up terribly and it can steal parts of your life from you for doing the alchemy wrong. This is sorta aiming at the people that know how to perform at a basic level and up.

But honestly its also kinda alchemy to turn dinner into a charcoal briquette or a biological warfare item.

I wish I could do that but I need a special certificate… So I bring an extra phone that does basically the same.

Well that is neat

You have never spent a day doing labor in 54°C / 130°F weather then.

If you can even get cold water through the lines instead of shockingly warm water, it is a blessing.

Yes, this has been covered. I made a mistake and rather than edit it I just left it up with my shame. And edited the body text.

Still stand by there is nothing science fiction in 1984 anymore and also that euphoria pills are not happiness. Just 2 separate thoughts my brain mashed together poorly.

Oh for sure people view the idea of being reduced to an object of the state apparently shockingly happily enough.

But we have a department of war that our dear leader of just got a peace medal and awards. Like the doublespeak is here. And we dont spit people out of bottles already premade for their role.
Department of education is run by an entertainer who also cuts budget for schools.

Its definitely a mix of them.
I think the world is 1984, but the vibes are desperate for the fake utopia of Brave New World.

Yeah, i rembered him going to the prole neighborhood and for some reason always put that into brave new world context from the apathy and squalor.

Plus definitely not a lack of drugs in 1984 just far more mundane.

Everyone talks to their phones instead of typing now, and like microphones and cameras are everywhere.
And we have let all infrastructure start to fail as long as it isnt a shiny thing rich people interact with.

I dunno man its getting pretty 1984.

Euphoric. Drugs that make you euphoric.

This is how I meant it!

But definitely failed on the apathetic dystopian culture book when writing this.

I did. I just misremembered the plot and hoped everyone was so apathetic cause drugs.

Sorry to have failed you.

Yeah I thought I remembered a drug in 1984 but it is just gin and cigarettes and everyone’s brain making them apathetic.

So even closer to reality except for gen z.

Yeah sorry, the drug in 1984 is apparently just morphine and drinking yourself to death.

Wild how they both are so dystopian but 1984 is just straight up political fiction with like no SciFi and my brain was trying to add more

Probably, but it is not a gaming device but a network managing one and its been running for way before bazzite and just the thought of having to configure it all again makes my skin crawl.

I dont even game on my Linux system and every time it updates I know I have a frustrating night ahead of me.

Maybe just an Ubuntu thing but actually my steam deck has had to roll back a few times as well… At least it had that option unlike Ubuntu.

Maybe it is because I am using mine for network related apps that they are always what breaks but man it seems like some major backed component gets a rewrite every so often just to see if it is better. I have had so many port issues and network issues it makes me want to be Amish. That and trying to get video thumbnails back that one time. Wasnt a total nightmare but weird that it took me days to figure out that apparently I had to delete the cache then reinstall ffmpegthumbnailer…
So, no, not alone. Hate updates. Hate them so much.

Have you tried Nemo by the way? Kinda like it better than Dolphin.

Yeah. Maybe. I know I will never try arch again and I thought Ubuntu was supposed to be one of the good ones but its been so much stress.
I dont want to have to completely redo my whole system and all the software just to try a different OS flavor

Ah. I have only figured out the check for updates daily, weekly or never options. I am leaning into never as this is the third time an Ubuntu update has made me want to curl up in a ball and die.

I dont find thus constant tech support fun.

Ha! As if Ubuntu didnt update on its own and then completely killed my internet access because it changed the file system of how it stores DNS but didnt somehow do it right to the point of me spending 3 hours figuring out what file I had to recreate and why to get it working again.

Linux is cool but not this make believe version of cool.

Since time immemorial.